
Dear Marsha, I believe my mother n law is upset with my husband and I, and I need an unbiased opinion on whether or not my husband and I did something wrong. My husband ( I’ll call Tom) works out of town 5 day a week and only comes home on weekends. He has...
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Tags: Daughter-N-Law, Family, Holiday, Mother, mother-n-law, out of town, Son, time, Visit, Work
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Dear Marsha, I feel like my mom is working herself to death. She is 59 years old and works full-time to support her disabled partner (understandable), and my 23 year old half brother! My brother has never had a job, aside from a paper route he once held for 3 months. He quit school...
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Tags: Argue, Brother, Disabled, Exhausting, Family, Free Loader, Job, Jobless, Lazy, Moocher, Mother, Tired, Work
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Hello Marsha from the girls of Office Nightmare. We come to you today as a group effort in hopes of finding a prank or so that could aggravate a co-worker as much as he aggravates us daily. We do not wish for it to harm him physically in any way, nor do we wish...
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Tags: Aggravated, Co-Worker, Colored, Cubicle, Girls, Highlighters, Nightmare, Office, Prank, Pranks, Stapled, Staples, Tried, Trio, Work
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Marsha Marsha Marsha, Please Help Me Make Up My Mind!!! I feel like I am going in circles recently. I have had my mother and boyfriend yell at one another. They never have got along. I feel I must choose between them. Mom says that my boyfriend is too much of a negative influence...
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Tags: boyfriend, Career, College, Decide, Love, Mother, Relationship, Teaching, Work
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Dear Marsha, Alright I have just found out that something I have done at work is illegal. I was in a disciplinary with my boss and I recorded the conversation on my phone without letting him know I was. My boss has since found this out and has suspended me and has also reduced...
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Tags: admissable, boss, Conversation, court, disciplinary, illegal, Job, judge, Legal, Pay cut, Phone, Recording, suspended, suspension, Work
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Dear Marsha, Normally I would never write to an advice column, no offense, but it is not my thing. I just wanted to get a second opinion on an issue I am having at work. We work 9 1/2 hours a day. We do get a 30 minute lunch, which is unpaid of course....
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Tags: Bathroom, Break, Breaks, Business, Gotta Go, Labor Laws, Law, Restroom, Work
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